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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 3h

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library goes #OpenAccess

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/10...

#History 🗃️

BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press

BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 2h

The response to this nonsense needs to be: prove it. Show me a degree that you think isn’t providing students with value for money. Education has lots of benefits, and these can’t be and aren’t just measured in salaries.

Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 2h

What Badenoch doesn't understand is that many so called rip off degrees are proudly displayed on the mantelpieces of parents and grandparents who were denied the opportunity to enjoy HE.
It's known as aspiration.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 6h

Reminder that basing funding on graduate income incentivises unis to close courses like nursing (too poorly paid), and to discriminate against female students and most minority ethnic groups (whose earnings on graduation are lower than white men).

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7h

'Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls.' 1/3

Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places

Tory leader to use conference speech to attack ‘debt trap degrees’ and pledge more money for apprenticeships

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 5h

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 6h

All I think about when reading this is how many jobs the money spent on that pile of brick and glass could have saved in smaller humanities departments - my own colleagues. It’s like building a monument of gold in a landscape of wrack and ruin.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7h

'The gleaming palace to the humanities – the single largest building project ever undertaken by the University of Oxford made possible by the largest philanthropic gift it has ever received – stands in stark contrast to the beleaguered, shrinking state of the rest of the sector.'

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 1d

Sometimes bibliography looks like this, and by extension, rare book cataloging. 4 OCLC records, 3 secondary sources, flashlight for watermarks, etc: all to determine that our copy of “Cryes of London” is from 1689, from the fifth edition, first impression: 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks

A messy desk strewn with books and notes, with a rare book in a cradle in the center.

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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 2d

This fragment from book 3 of Aristotle's Metaphysica in the Latin translation by Michael Scot is one of the new items in version 6.7 of my Supplementa tertia to Aristoteles Latinus Codices that was released today! (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1258)
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d

Should anyone find themselves in central London on Weds 19 November, consider yourself invited to a book launch! @earliermiddleages.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Book Launch: Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar- Session 3

www.history.ac.uk

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 1d

Love the fact that Dunstan’s Classbook is the header

Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 1d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 1d

Link doesn’t seem to work:

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

Read. Read widely, randomly, for fun. Be led by your curiosity. Read fiction. Recommend your favourite books to your loved ones. Re-read the books from your childhood. Books are a uniquely portable kind of magic. Carry a book or three with you wherever you go. Never. Stop. Reading.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 4d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 1d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 2d

Oh boy, on Oct 16, @leoba.bsky.social is showing Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1004/29, a mid-14thC physician's belt w/ calendar, tables of solar & lunar eclipses, anatomical phlebotomy diagram, & urine wheel. A 🦇 book, b/c it unfolds like a pair of 🦇 wings. libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/14872116

Coffee with a Codex On The Road: Bat Book at the Rosenbach

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...

libcal.library.upenn.edu

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 2d

Any thoughts about this object? A bone seal matrix which appears to have a chi-rho on one side and a naked, standing figure wearing a tunic on the other. Recently found and recorded @findsorguk.bsky.social. Byzantine? Medieval? Modern? finds.org.uk/database/art...

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 2d

By October 15, apply for a fellowship to fund your visit to HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota, for research residencies to be completed between January 1 and June 30, 2026.

Learn more: hmml.org/research/fellowships
Application deadline: October 15

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 4d

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose

#r4today

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 4d

On 8th October, Dr Sarah Hendriks will be giving a separate talk about the project to recover history lost in the Great Fire of 1922 in Dawson Street as part of the Dublin Festival of History: ria.ie/events/dubli...

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The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · 6d

London in the Second World War - EXTENDED--> 03/02/26

This free exhibition explores the experiences of Londoners during the Second World War and the effect it had on the city they knew.

More info and FREE tickets: www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us/exh...

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 7d

New & aspiring MA/PhD students! Join us to learn how we can help you with your research at the first of our Doctoral Open Days 2025:

16 Oct - 'Getting Started at The British Library' (online)
31 Oct - 'Music, Sound and Vision' (in person)

More info, events & tickets: events.bl.uk/whats-on/doc...

Doctoral Open Days | British Library

oin one of our Doctoral Open Days for an introduction into the areas of our collection which may be relevant to you, alongside practical tips for using the

events.bl.uk

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The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social · 6d

Jobs For Medievalists

Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
(Full-time)
The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Melvin R.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 7d

This looks like a good event from @senatehouselib.bsky.social!

#Railway200

www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

On the Right Track: Exploring Senate House Library's Railway Collections for Research

In 2025 we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the modern railway. Join us for a dive into our library’s extensive railway collections, tailored for researchers and enthusiasts.

www.london.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 7d

We're so excited to welcome our new cohort of History of the Book students! In Week 1, they will delve into artists' books, bookbinding, and textual scholarship

#historyofthebook #bookhistory

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 8d

#HistoryJob - just a reminder that our colleagues in VCH Herefordshire are looking for *two* contributing editors to bring their first #BigRedBook for over 100 years to fruition.

Details in the link, applications close on 10 October.

Contributing Editors at The Herefordshire Victoria County History Trust

Apply for the Contributing Editors role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 7d

The 2025 Dorothy Whitelock Lecture @engfac.bsky.social will be given by Prof. Jane Roberts. All welcome. In person and online. Registration details below.
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 7d

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age

Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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